Economic

At Saturday's session, the Government decided to continue the importance of the measure for determining the highest prices of basic food products. With this decision, the highest prices of these products remain at the level of the regular prices that were applied on December 1, 2021, in wholesale and retail...

Both from the MPs and at Monday's meeting in the Government, the workers expect a positive response to the proposal of SSM to increase the minimum wage to 18,000 denars and a gradual increase of all other wages in accordance with the Collective Agreement and the Law and annual...

The prices of industrial products on the domestic market last month were higher by 1.3 percent on a monthly basis, and by 15 percent on an annual basis, says the State Statistical Office. In December 2021, compared to November 2021, the producer prices of industrial products were higher in the...

Over 16,000 citizens are registered as having lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020. Bekim Murati, head of the Employment Agency, said that this is the official number of jobs lost in this period. According to the official data of the Employment Agency, these citizens have...

Even the largest increase in the minimum wage in 2017 did not endanger the economy - that is, companies did not lay off workers, did not reduce wages, nor did their profits fall - but on the contrary increased productivity. This was shown by the analysis of SSM made...

Passenger and freight trains are stopped in the country for two days now, after the machine and executive staff in the Railways Transport of RNM started the boycott on Wednesday morning due to the unpaid second part of the salary for December last year. DushkoChakarovski, a representative of the railway...

Minister of Labor and Social Policy Jovanka Trenchevska has just taken office and is already hiring two advisors in her office, whom she will pay salaries of 52,000 denars, reports Plusinfo.mk. The job ads were published on Friday and will last for 3 working days. According to the announcement, the ministry...

The Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia (SSM) called on MPs to vote on their initiative for a legal solution to increase the minimum wage by 60 percent of the average wage or 18,000 denars. Through a statement today, SSM told the MPs of all political parties that the...

We have a few more days of the month where product prices are frozen and beware that before freezing the prices were raised. Prices were not frozen at the moment when they were lower but when they went up then they were frozen. And it is not possible for...

The need to increase the minimum wage to 18,000 denars is real and existential for workers. The arguments are on our side and I see no reason not to accept our request, SSM head Darko Dimovski said in an interview with MIA. In the interview that will be published in...